These are the best pancakes you will ever taste! The first time I made them, I thought they would taste just like any other pancake, but I was wrong. They really get fluffy when you cook them and taste very flavorful. First you need to grind your wheat fresh if you can. If you do […]
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We enjoyed making homemade crackers today. Molly and Megan gladly helped. They are light and crispy, healthy and very simple. Try this recipe sometime. I took photos along the way so you could see the process. Homemade Wheat Crackers: 1 pound butter or coconut oil melted 2 cups of boiling water Mix together the melted
On our homestead, we have one small pasture and one large pasture. The calf stays in the small one and the two horses stay in the larger one. The other day I opened the gate between them and the horses could not wait to get into the calf’s pasture and the calf couldn’t wait to
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Our black berries and raspberries were in bad shape. They were very overgrown with a lot of dead shoots mixed in. I went through cutting the blackberries to about four feet tall and made some paths that we can maintain with a push mower. (left pic) As you can see from the picture on the
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So many things have been going on at our Homestead. So many good reports. The Lord gave and the Lord chose to take away our milk cow and our dog a couple months ago. We never lost sight of God’s grace in the midst of some very hard trials. After a serious accident to my
This was a real blessing today!!!!! What a precious gift. Our sow had 9 little piggies. It was something I had always dreamed of having. That is what I love the most about being a homesteader. We filmed some of the experiences with the sow. In fact, on a really funny note, the night before
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We are so thankful that our Mark is still alive. God is so merciful. It could have been so much worse. I think about the book of Job sometimes and draw so much courage from it. Knowing that no matter what the circumstances may be, blessed be the name of the Lord. The Lord has
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As you have all learned, my husband, Mark Harrison, had a very freak accident yesterday. One worker was holding the 1.5 inch industrial staple gun in his hand waiting for Mark to put the sheeting up so he could staple it to the frame of the house. The Man was looking the other way as
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Hello fellow homestead keepers… I wanted to share my lasted keeper tip with everyone. I have designed a file that allows me to add my kids specific chores each day. For Mikey, I made the letters big enough for him to see and read, simple words he can sound out. Each day the kids seem
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Blessed be the name of the Lord!!!!! The Lord has chosen to take our cow during the night last night. We still do not know why, the TB was negative so it wasn’t that. If it was the cancer, it sure was aggressive. Mark knew that she was dying last evening, she was laying on
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